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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Freshman Christine Clark
hit a jumper with 3.5 seconds on the clock to give the Harvard
women's basketball team a 69-68 win over Columbia Friday night at
Levien Gymnasium. The Crimson improves to 10-6 overall, 2-0 in Ivy
League play and 25-0 against the Lions at Levien Gym.

Sophomore Victoria Lippert
led four Crimson players in double figures with 20 points including
four in the final minute of the game. Brogan Berry added
15 points, while Emma Markley added
15 and Clark put up 10. Markley moved into 10th on the all-time
rebounds list at Harvard after leading the team with five on the
night

Harvard and Columbia battled it out in the first half with the
Crimson holding a 31-30 edge at the half. The Crimson took an early
5-2 lead on a Matera three-pointer before the Lions went on a 5-0
run to take its first lead of the game, 7-5, with 16:32 left in the
first half. Jackie Alemany was a spark off the bench for the
Crimson scoring seven points and grabbing two rebounds in five
minutes to help Harvard to its largest lead of the first half,
16-11, with 10:44 on the clock. Four minutes late a lay-up from
Markley put the visiting team up four, but a Kathleen Barry three
and a lay-up from Dywer gave the Lions a 23-22 advantage. The
team's trade leads three more times before the end of the half with
an Emma Golen
lay-up putting the Crimson on top before the end of the half.

Markley had eight points, five assists, three rebounds a block
and a steal in the first 20 minutes of action. Columbia
outrebounded the Crimson, 23-16 in the first half, including 10
offensive boards to keep the score close. Harvard made 46.7 percent
of its shots in the opening frame.

Both teams struggled offensively in the first five minutes of
the second stanza as neither team was able to pull away from the
other. Harvard held a 45-41 leads with 12:18 left in the game, but
a Taylor Ward three-point play and another lay-up by the Lions put
Columbia up 46-45 a minute later. After trading leads, the Lions
drained a three to go up 53-50 – its largest lead on the
night. Lippert converted on a three-point play on the other end on
Harvard's next possession to tie the game with 7:40 left on the
clock. The teams went back and forth with the lead until the very
end. Lippert hit a pair of free throws and then a jumper to give
the Crimson a one-point advantage.

Harvard shot 45.8 percent from the field and 81.3 percent from
the free throw line. Columbia hit 40.3 percent of its shots and
outrebounded the Crimson, 43-33.